How to set the rpmbuild destination folder

Question

I noticed rpmbuild (-bb and --buildroot options) creates the .rpm in different locations depending of what OS are you using:

• GNU/Linux Ubuntu <= 9.04: /usr/src/

Answer 1

You may want to use the command argument --define : For example, this will send the rpm files into the current directory.

rpmbuild anything.spec --bb --define "_rpmdir $(pwd)"

This will send the rpmsto output dir

rpmbuild anything.spec --bb --define "_rpmdir /outputdir"

Or perhaps something more complicated such as Custom gradle task for rpmbuild .